Motivational Quotes

Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

- Jackson, Michael

Best Quotes about Music

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

12.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

40.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton